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A FAMILY HOLDS A FARM 150 YEARS.

The very fine 160-acre farm belonging to the estate of the late Jeremiah Van Reed, in Amity Township, Berks County, Penn., has been willed to James Warren Van Reed, now 5 years old, thus descending in uninterrupted succession in the Van Reed family for over 150 years.

April 03, 1884

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